Friday, 18 July 2014

A PLANE THAT LANDED ON MITYANA HIGHWAY

Plane Carrying and being Flown
by US Marine Run out of Fuel, Making Emergency Landing on the
Mityana-Kampala Highway Causing Traffic JamBy Jako D Waluluka

A plane that was carrying and being
flown by American Marines earlier on Friday made an emergency landing on
the Mityana –Kampala highway at Kiwuwu village .

It is reported that the plane which was
enroute to Sudan was forced to turn back to Entebbe after what is said
was bad weather in Sudan that could not enable the pilot to continue
flying there thus his decision to fly back to Entebbe.

However, it is said that he noticed that the plane had run out of fuel and made a final decision to try and land it on the road.

Luckily for him at the time, there was
no traffic on the road which enabled him to tax it on the road saving
both his life and that of the other passengers.

When we contacted the civil aviation
authority, they confirmed the incident and said that they would be
coming out with a formal statement. By the time that we went to press
they were yet to release the statement.

Other Incidences;

A piper forced on road landing

In January,a small plane travelling to
Connecticut after taking a tour of the Statue of Liberty made an
emergency landing on a New York City interstate highway, startling
drivers but touching down safely with no serious injuries to anyone
aboard or on the ground, officials said.

The aircraft, a Piper PA-28, set down at
around 3:20 p.m. on the northbound side of the Major Deegan Expressway
in the Bronx, in an area where the highway passes through Van Cortlandt
Park. The Federal Aviation Administration said three people were on
board.

In another incident that took place in
2013, a pilot made an emergency landing on a highway in Florida, US,
after his plane lost power.

The vintage plane landed safely on State Road 415 after the pilot realised he was not going to make it to the airport runway.

What still remains unclear is how the
pilot will manage to get it off the road or whether they will have to
dismantle it first and how long the whole operation will take .